CEO Simunix

Banyan Software is the best permanent home for software businesses that serve specialized industries their employees and their customers. We are on a mission to acquire build and grow great companies worldwide helping them modernize through shared AI expertise and operational discipline. The Banyan Software Foundation endowed with $100 million in Banyan stock leverages technology to build a greener and more equitable world. Banyan is Great Place to Work Certified a five-time Inc. 5000 honoree and a top 10 company on the Deloitte Technology Fast 500. Founded in 2016 and headquartered in Atlanta Banyan operates more than 100 portfolio companies across North America the UK EU and APAC.

About Banyan

Banyan Software is the best permanent home for software businesses that serve specialised industries their employees and their customers. We are on a mission to acquire build and grow great companies worldwide helping them modernise through shared AI expertise and operational discipline. The Banyan Software Foundation endowed with $100 million in Banyan stock leverages technology to build a greener and more equitable world. Banyan is a Great Place to Work Certified company a five-time Inc. 5000 honoree and a top-10 company on the Deloitte Technology Fast 500. Founded in 2016 and headquartered in Atlanta Banyan operates more than 100 portfolio companies across North America the UK the EU and APAC.

About Simunix

Since 1998 Simunix has been providing UK private and public sector organisations with the intelligence tools they need to prevent and protect against fraud identity theft and misrepresentation by those who seek to take advantage of the digital world.

Our suite of solutions provides our customers with the investigative means to verify accept or reject any information provided by their prospective customers or subjects under investigation. Around three-quarters of UK police forces rely on our data to locate people verify whereabouts and check the accounts individuals give of themselves. Alongside that public-sector base we serve financial services firms debt recovery businesses the property sector and any organisation that needs to verify who it is dealing with.

With a dedicated team nurturing one-to-one personal relationships with every customer we are here to ensure our customers businesses are in the safest hands.

The Opportunity

This is a rare opportunity to take the helm of a profitable deeply embedded data business and build the commercial engine that will drive its next phase of growth.

You will join directly as CEO reporting to a Banyan Operating Leader with full operational authority over how you run the business. With Banyans backing and shared AI and operational expertise behind you your job is to turn a strong durable asset into a growth company: improve new-logo acquisition expand into adjacent public- and private-sector markets and make the product the primary competitive advantage. The opportunity to create structural distance through AI is real.

What You Will Own

Strategy and Commercial Outcomes

• Own the companys strategic direction market positioning and competitive response.
• Drive revenue growth with full P&L accountability across retention expansion pricing and new customer acquisition.
• Build a repeatable scalable go-to-market engine that reopens new-logo sales and reduces reliance on back-to-base growth to return the business to double-digit growth.
• Expand the addressable market beyond the established policing base to include adjacent public-sector buyers (local authorities healthcare) and grow the private-sector footprint across financial services AML and identity verification.
• Establish pricing and packaging strategies that reflect the value the data and platform deliver.
• Identify and act on AI-driven opportunities to reposition the product and create a durable competitive distance.

Product and Technology Partnership

• Own the product roadmap at a strategic level ensuring it reflects customer needs market dynamics and long-term competitive positioning.
• Partner with the operations and technology leadership to translate product vision into execution priorities.
• Sharpen the products fit for the financial services market and bring the emerging KYC AML data orchestration and ID verification propositions to market.
• Champion AI-first product thinking identifying where automation predictive insights and intelligent workflows create durable differentiation in fraud and identity intelligence.
• Make deliberate build-vs-buy decisions and sequence the roadmap under resource constraints.

Team and Operations

• Build and lead a high-performing commercial team within a close-knit business of around 15 people raising the bar on sales execution and accountability.
• Establish clear decision rights execution cadences and accountability frameworks that increase speed and commercial discipline without disrupting what already works.
• Work closely with the founder through a planned transition respecting the relationships and reputation built over more than two decades while bringing fresh commercial energy to the business.
• Communicate clearly with Banyan Operating Partners and stakeholders on business performance strategic priorities and market conditions.

What We Are Looking For

The CEO we are looking for is a commercial operator with a product mindset who leads with an AI-first approach and is energised by the opportunity to create real lasting business value. This is a hands-on leadership seat in a small established business well-suited to a first-time CEO ready to step up or to a commercial leader who wants to own a P&L end-to-end.

You will have built and run go-to-market motions treated product as a primary strategic lever and grown recurring revenue while protecting the retention that makes it durable. You are comfortable selling into both regulated public-sector environments and private-sector markets and you can move a business forward with energy and discipline while respecting the people and relationships that built it.

Qualifications for success

• Owned the P&L and commercial outcomes for a B2B SaaS or data business business unit or function with direct accountability for revenue growth retention and margin.
• Built a repeatable go-to-market engine establishing scalable sales and expansion motions ideally one that reopened or accelerated new-customer acquisition in a business that had plateaued or relied on its existing base.
• Comfortable selling into both public sector and regulated environments (for example policing local government or healthcare) and private sector markets such as financial services.
• Shipped AI-embedded product capabilities with measurable customer outcomes or led sustained AI experimentation with clear conviction about where it creates durable value and embedded AI into how a business operates: decision-making team workflows and go-to-market execution.
• Delivered measurable improvements to net revenue retention and pricing power turning margin durability from a strategic priority into a realised outcome.
• Hired and developed talent in a way that shifted an organisations performance trajectory.
• Served as a credible executive voice for owners boards and key stakeholders.
• Experience in govtech fraud and identity RegTech or financial services would be beneficial.

What We Offer

• Base salary of 120000 plus a 30000 target bonus.
• A long-term incentive (phantom equity) plan with the new CEO helping to shape allocation across the senior leadership team.
• Full operational ownership of an established profitable business with the backing AI expertise and operational discipline of Banyan behind you.

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